Comparison of physical and chemical properties of soils in China and Iraq

Raid Al-Kateeb and Hussein Y. Aziz

African Journal of Engineering Research
Published: November 2 2016
Volume 4, Issue 4
Pages 67-70

Abstract

This study aimed to find the similarities and differences between the physical and chemical properties for different soils in different countries. The first soil sample was taken from the southwest region in China and the second was taken from the south region of Iraq. The physical properties show similar characters between the two soils in the density of soils and difference in strength parameters and depth of the rock layer, which leads to the needing of deeper foundations in the first soil compared to the second. The type of soils in the first soil sample is silty to silty clay and they are sandy in the shallow depths and silty to silty clay in the deeper layers for second soil sample. The chemical properties are completely different in the two locations relating to the nature and the environmental conditions of the two selected locations in this research. Therefore, the engineering applications and codes within the different locations can be applied for the both if the physical properties are similar represented by the strength parameters and soil consistency etc.

Keywords: Soil physical properties, soil chemical properties, clay minerals, China, Iraq.

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